1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,870 CHRISTINE BREINER: Welcome back to recitation. 2 00:00:08,870 --> 00:00:12,850 In this video, I'd like us to practice integration by parts. 3 00:00:12,850 --> 00:00:16,410 Specifically, I'd like to solve the following four problems. 4 00:00:16,410 --> 00:00:20,150 Or I'd like you to solve the following four problems. 5 00:00:20,150 --> 00:00:21,760 I'd like us to find antiderivatives 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,200 for each of these functions. x e to the minus x, 7 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:29,340 x cubed over the quantity 1 plus x squared squared, 8 00:00:29,340 --> 00:00:33,540 arctan x, and natural log x over x squared. 9 00:00:33,540 --> 00:00:36,300 And so the main goal, because we're using integration 10 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:38,780 by parts, is to figure out what you should make u, 11 00:00:38,780 --> 00:00:40,970 and what you should make v prime. 12 00:00:40,970 --> 00:00:42,611 And why don't you give it a shot. 13 00:00:42,611 --> 00:00:43,860 Work on that for a little bit. 14 00:00:43,860 --> 00:00:45,620 I'm actually going to give you one hint, 15 00:00:45,620 --> 00:00:47,830 and that's that this one, you may want to break up 16 00:00:47,830 --> 00:00:49,140 in a nontraditional way. 17 00:00:49,140 --> 00:00:52,260 You may not want to break it up as x cubed and 1 18 00:00:52,260 --> 00:00:53,350 over this function. 19 00:00:53,350 --> 00:00:56,930 You're going to want to split up this function in the numerator. 20 00:00:56,930 --> 00:01:00,200 Part of it will be in u, part of it will be in v prime. 21 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,039 So that's my hint on number 2. 22 00:01:02,039 --> 00:01:04,580 So now with that information, I'd like you to give it a shot, 23 00:01:04,580 --> 00:01:06,890 and then I'll come back, and I'll show you how I do it. 24 00:01:14,420 --> 00:01:16,050 OK, welcome back. 25 00:01:16,050 --> 00:01:18,570 So again, what we're looking for is antiderivatives for each 26 00:01:18,570 --> 00:01:21,180 of these four functions. 27 00:01:21,180 --> 00:01:22,820 And now, what I'm going to do, is 28 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:25,120 I'm going to help you pick u and v prime, 29 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,680 and then I'm going to show you what answer I got. 30 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,140 And I'm going to let you do the work in the middle. 31 00:01:30,140 --> 00:01:32,890 So let's start off with number 1. 32 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:39,136 So if I have x e to the minus x-- integral of x e 33 00:01:39,136 --> 00:01:43,370 to the minus x dx, it's very easy 34 00:01:43,370 --> 00:01:46,600 to do either-- to make either e to the minus x either u or v 35 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:47,100 prime. 36 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:48,330 Doesn't really matter. 37 00:01:48,330 --> 00:01:50,490 Because an integral of e to the minus 38 00:01:50,490 --> 00:01:52,850 x is going to have an e to the minus x again, 39 00:01:52,850 --> 00:01:55,550 and a derivative is going to have an e to the minus x again, 40 00:01:55,550 --> 00:01:58,010 with a minus sign in front, in both cases. 41 00:01:58,010 --> 00:01:59,740 But this doesn't really change. 42 00:01:59,740 --> 00:02:01,364 So we have-- when we go up or down, 43 00:02:01,364 --> 00:02:03,155 it doesn't really matter if we integrate up 44 00:02:03,155 --> 00:02:04,430 or take a derivative. 45 00:02:04,430 --> 00:02:06,270 So really it's, we get to pick what 46 00:02:06,270 --> 00:02:08,160 we do with the e to the minus x based on what 47 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:09,610 we want to do with the x. 48 00:02:09,610 --> 00:02:12,310 Well, we like taking derivatives of things 49 00:02:12,310 --> 00:02:16,710 that don't have two functions of x, so it would be nice if we 50 00:02:16,710 --> 00:02:19,460 chose our integration by parts pieces 51 00:02:19,460 --> 00:02:22,264 so that this thing wasn't there anymore. 52 00:02:22,264 --> 00:02:24,180 So let me write down-- actually, before I even 53 00:02:24,180 --> 00:02:25,890 do number 1, maybe I should remind you 54 00:02:25,890 --> 00:02:28,590 what the integration by parts formula is. 55 00:02:28,590 --> 00:02:31,010 So let me just, I'll scratch that out for a second. 56 00:02:31,010 --> 00:02:32,843 And what we're doing, is we're going to have 57 00:02:32,843 --> 00:02:35,705 integral of u v prime dx. 58 00:02:35,705 --> 00:02:37,455 And if you recall what you saw in lecture, 59 00:02:37,455 --> 00:02:42,880 is this should be equal to u*v minus the integral v u prime 60 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,240 dx. 61 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,782 And we'll put that plus c, because sometimes I forget 62 00:02:46,782 --> 00:02:47,740 to write it at the end. 63 00:02:47,740 --> 00:02:49,712 So I'll put it there, so I don't forget. 64 00:02:49,712 --> 00:02:52,045 So really, what we're trying to do, right, is pick the u 65 00:02:52,045 --> 00:02:53,540 and v prime. 66 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:55,470 And so we want to make this thing, 67 00:02:55,470 --> 00:02:58,030 this v u prime, as simple as possible. 68 00:02:58,030 --> 00:03:00,700 So what I was saying is if we make this v prime or this u, 69 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:01,870 it doesn't matter. 70 00:03:01,870 --> 00:03:05,820 So let's pick whether we want this to be u or v prime. 71 00:03:05,820 --> 00:03:09,930 Well, if I make this u, then u prime is 1. 72 00:03:09,930 --> 00:03:10,900 That's good. 73 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:14,450 If I make it v prime, then v is x squared over 2. 74 00:03:14,450 --> 00:03:15,690 That's more complicated. 75 00:03:15,690 --> 00:03:18,480 So we obviously want to make this u. 76 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,150 So for number 1, we're going to choose u is equal to x, 77 00:03:23,150 --> 00:03:28,520 and v prime is equal to e to the minus x. 78 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,650 And then you can proceed from there. 79 00:03:30,650 --> 00:03:32,270 And I'll leave it at that. 80 00:03:32,270 --> 00:03:34,310 Well, actually, just to make sure we're OK, 81 00:03:34,310 --> 00:03:36,970 I'll even write u prime is equal to 1, 82 00:03:36,970 --> 00:03:40,750 and v is going to be equal to negative e to the minus x. 83 00:03:40,750 --> 00:03:43,120 So we'd be able to proceed from there, right? 84 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,020 We have all the pieces we need. 85 00:03:46,020 --> 00:03:50,420 Now, number 2-- I'll give you the final answers at the end. 86 00:03:50,420 --> 00:03:53,760 Number 2, picking u and v prime is a little more complicated. 87 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,920 And let's look at this function. 88 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,436 x cubed over 1 plus x squared squared. 89 00:04:01,436 --> 00:04:04,090 The problem with picking-- that does not look like a 2. 90 00:04:04,090 --> 00:04:04,660 Sorry. 91 00:04:04,660 --> 00:04:07,100 The problem with picking u and v prime here, 92 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:10,780 is that it's hard to see what's going to be easy to integrate. 93 00:04:10,780 --> 00:04:13,700 So what we want to do is rewrite this 94 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:20,050 as-- let's see-- x squared times x over 1 95 00:04:20,050 --> 00:04:24,840 plus x squared squared. 96 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:27,324 And now, why is this any better? 97 00:04:27,324 --> 00:04:28,740 Well, I mean, it's the same thing. 98 00:04:28,740 --> 00:04:31,370 But why does this help us see what we want to do? 99 00:04:31,370 --> 00:04:35,770 Well, if you notice this thing right here-- 1 plus x squared. 100 00:04:35,770 --> 00:04:37,020 What is its derivative? 101 00:04:37,020 --> 00:04:39,260 Its derivative is 2x. 102 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:40,960 Up here we have an x. 103 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,180 So this piece right here looks like it 104 00:04:44,180 --> 00:04:47,730 could be much more easily integrated than this right 105 00:04:47,730 --> 00:04:49,120 here. 106 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,692 So this might be a little counterintuitive, 107 00:04:51,692 --> 00:04:53,900 because we're going to take the harder-looking thing, 108 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:56,990 and make that our v prime. 109 00:04:56,990 --> 00:04:59,620 But the nice thing is that we can actually 110 00:04:59,620 --> 00:05:01,340 integrate this quantity. 111 00:05:01,340 --> 00:05:07,170 So we choose, in this case, this is our u, 112 00:05:07,170 --> 00:05:10,146 and this is our v prime. 113 00:05:10,146 --> 00:05:11,270 So how do I integrate this? 114 00:05:11,270 --> 00:05:13,660 Well, I integrate this by using a substitution. 115 00:05:13,660 --> 00:05:16,260 And that will give me v. And the derivative of this 116 00:05:16,260 --> 00:05:16,970 is quite simple. 117 00:05:16,970 --> 00:05:17,511 It's just 2x. 118 00:05:17,511 --> 00:05:18,610 Right? 119 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:20,550 But this is the strategy that we want here. 120 00:05:20,550 --> 00:05:23,400 Why did we even think to split that up like that? 121 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,710 Well, we knew we had to deal with the denominator 122 00:05:25,710 --> 00:05:28,770 in some fashion, and taking a derivative 123 00:05:28,770 --> 00:05:30,950 with this in the denominator-- so 124 00:05:30,950 --> 00:05:34,040 putting this part of the function in u-- 125 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,370 when I look at u prime, it's going to be even worse. 126 00:05:36,370 --> 00:05:38,470 It's going to be a higher power here. 127 00:05:38,470 --> 00:05:40,720 It's going to be a cubic in the denominator. 128 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:42,160 That's just making things worse. 129 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,830 So we know we'd like to integrate this denominator. 130 00:05:44,830 --> 00:05:46,870 We'd like it to be a part of v prime. 131 00:05:46,870 --> 00:05:50,850 But the problem is that if I put all the x cubed in the u, 132 00:05:50,850 --> 00:05:54,220 and if I just had a 1 here for my v prime, that's, I 133 00:05:54,220 --> 00:05:55,820 can't really integrate that very well. 134 00:05:55,820 --> 00:05:58,130 But if I keep one of the x's, then I 135 00:05:58,130 --> 00:06:00,920 can integrate this quite simply with a substitution. 136 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,210 So that's the sort of reasoning behind why 137 00:06:03,210 --> 00:06:04,850 we choose it that way. 138 00:06:04,850 --> 00:06:05,350 All right. 139 00:06:05,350 --> 00:06:07,183 We've got two more to look at, and then I'll 140 00:06:07,183 --> 00:06:09,720 give you the answers. 141 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:10,350 3. 142 00:06:10,350 --> 00:06:10,850 OK. 143 00:06:10,850 --> 00:06:13,410 3, you've seen this trick before. 144 00:06:13,410 --> 00:06:16,500 The function was arctan x. 145 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:18,620 Now, you've seen this trick I'm about to do 146 00:06:18,620 --> 00:06:21,280 with natural log of x. 147 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:23,170 The same kind of thing with natural log of x. 148 00:06:23,170 --> 00:06:25,946 You actually saw this in one of the lecture videos. 149 00:06:25,946 --> 00:06:27,570 Because there's only one function here, 150 00:06:27,570 --> 00:06:30,710 you might think, well, I have no idea what I'm supposed 151 00:06:30,710 --> 00:06:32,330 to pick for u and v prime. 152 00:06:32,330 --> 00:06:36,490 But remember, it's really arctan x times 1. 153 00:06:36,490 --> 00:06:39,120 Now I have two functions. 154 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,260 And what gives us a hint for why we would want to do this, 155 00:06:43,260 --> 00:06:45,840 is that what's the derivative of arctan x? 156 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:47,197 Let me just remind you. 157 00:06:52,070 --> 00:06:56,410 d/dx of arctan is 1 over 1 plus x squared. 158 00:06:56,410 --> 00:06:57,970 Right? 159 00:06:57,970 --> 00:07:00,640 We're back to actually an almost similar situation to what 160 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:02,560 we had in the previous thing. 161 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,990 d/dx of arctan x is 1 over 1 plus x squared. 162 00:07:04,990 --> 00:07:07,220 So taking a derivative of this puts it 163 00:07:07,220 --> 00:07:09,600 in a form that almost looks easy to integrate. 164 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,920 What would make this function easy to integrate? 165 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,310 If there was an x up here, instead of a 1. 166 00:07:14,310 --> 00:07:15,830 Then I could use substitution. 167 00:07:15,830 --> 00:07:18,090 Where do we get that x from when we're 168 00:07:18,090 --> 00:07:20,880 solving this problem, where we're actually finding 169 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,930 an antiderivative of arctan x? 170 00:07:22,930 --> 00:07:27,070 Well, it's going to come from the fact that I make this u, 171 00:07:27,070 --> 00:07:29,210 and I make 1 v prime. 172 00:07:29,210 --> 00:07:31,620 So let me write that out explicitly. 173 00:07:31,620 --> 00:07:36,790 u I make arctan x, and v prime I make 1. 174 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:38,910 What does that do in our formula? 175 00:07:38,910 --> 00:07:41,550 Well, we're going to be integrating 176 00:07:41,550 --> 00:07:44,990 something that is v u prime. 177 00:07:44,990 --> 00:07:49,070 Well, v is going to be x, and u prime we see right here. 178 00:07:49,070 --> 00:07:51,530 So it's going to be, I'm going to be integrating x over 1 179 00:07:51,530 --> 00:07:54,280 plus x squared when I started doing the integration by parts 180 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:55,200 method. 181 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,500 That's much simpler, as we talked about previously, 182 00:07:57,500 --> 00:07:59,500 because the derivative of x squared is 2x, 183 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:01,440 and you have an x in the numerator when 184 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,250 you put in that v. 185 00:08:03,250 --> 00:08:07,630 So this is sort of the flavor of how these things are actually 186 00:08:07,630 --> 00:08:08,475 working. 187 00:08:08,475 --> 00:08:12,410 So let me do the final one here. 188 00:08:12,410 --> 00:08:16,950 We have ln x over x squared. 189 00:08:16,950 --> 00:08:17,960 OK. 190 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,240 Let me just tell you right now. 191 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,500 In integration by parts, natural log x 192 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:25,139 is not something you want to make the v prime. 193 00:08:25,139 --> 00:08:27,180 You don't want to try and take an antiderivative. 194 00:08:27,180 --> 00:08:30,480 You know an antiderivative of natural log of x. 195 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:31,560 x ln x minus x. 196 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,340 But that's certainly not going to make things any easier. 197 00:08:34,340 --> 00:08:34,840 Right? 198 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,214 You're actually-- then you've got 199 00:08:36,214 --> 00:08:38,460 a product of two functions all of a sudden. 200 00:08:38,460 --> 00:08:40,700 Everything's getting more complicated. 201 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:43,640 But natural log of x has a very nice derivative, because you 202 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,300 end up with something that has just a power of x. 203 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:49,529 Derivative of natural log of x is just 1 over x. 204 00:08:49,529 --> 00:08:51,070 So that's probably the way you always 205 00:08:51,070 --> 00:08:54,150 want to go when you see natural log of x in these integration 206 00:08:54,150 --> 00:08:56,650 by parts techniques. 207 00:08:56,650 --> 00:09:01,730 Because if I choose u is equal to ln x, and then v prime. 208 00:09:01,730 --> 00:09:04,890 In this case, I'm going to write it as a power. 209 00:09:04,890 --> 00:09:06,690 Let's think about what happened. 210 00:09:06,690 --> 00:09:09,050 u prime is 1 over x, right? 211 00:09:09,050 --> 00:09:11,500 So u prime is x to the minus 1. 212 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:12,430 What's v? 213 00:09:12,430 --> 00:09:14,900 Well, it's something like, let's see. 214 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:16,215 Negative x to the minus 1. 215 00:09:16,215 --> 00:09:17,340 Something like that, right? 216 00:09:17,340 --> 00:09:18,714 Let's make sure I did that right. 217 00:09:18,714 --> 00:09:20,410 Yeah, I think I did that right. 218 00:09:20,410 --> 00:09:23,550 So all of a sudden, if I integrate v u prime, 219 00:09:23,550 --> 00:09:24,750 that's just a power rule. 220 00:09:24,750 --> 00:09:27,820 It's x to the minus 2, negative x to the minus 2. 221 00:09:27,820 --> 00:09:31,120 So that's quite easy to integrate. 222 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,050 So again, when I see natural log of x in an integration 223 00:09:35,050 --> 00:09:37,990 by parts method, almost always, I 224 00:09:37,990 --> 00:09:39,770 hate to say always, almost always, 225 00:09:39,770 --> 00:09:42,050 almost a guarantee that you want to take a derivative. 226 00:09:42,050 --> 00:09:44,967 You want to make that the u. 227 00:09:44,967 --> 00:09:47,300 So hopefully that makes sense, some of these strategies. 228 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:49,760 I tried to pick ones that were somewhat different, 229 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,950 so you could see some different types of strategies we needed. 230 00:09:52,950 --> 00:09:54,385 And now I've done these earlier. 231 00:09:54,385 --> 00:09:56,760 So I'm just going to write down what the answers actually 232 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:01,050 are, and you can compare to what you got. 233 00:10:01,050 --> 00:10:03,064 So the answer to number 1, just to check. 234 00:10:09,770 --> 00:10:11,430 Number 2. 235 00:10:11,430 --> 00:10:13,200 Some of these are kind of long. 236 00:10:26,751 --> 00:10:27,250 Number 3. 237 00:10:36,910 --> 00:10:38,135 Number 4. 238 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:46,930 So let's just go through. 239 00:10:46,930 --> 00:10:50,370 We get-- in number 1, we get negative x e to the minus x 240 00:10:50,370 --> 00:10:52,930 minus e to the minus x plus c. 241 00:10:52,930 --> 00:10:54,740 Number 2, we get negative x squared 242 00:10:54,740 --> 00:10:59,300 over 2 times 1 plus x squared plus 1/2 natural log 1 plus x 243 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:01,480 squared plus c. 244 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:06,210 Three is x arc tan x minus 1/2 natural log of the quantity 1 245 00:11:06,210 --> 00:11:10,035 plus x squared plus c, and four is negative natural log 246 00:11:10,035 --> 00:11:15,290 x over x minus 1 over x plus c. 247 00:11:15,290 --> 00:11:18,550 So again, the whole point of this exercise, in my mind, 248 00:11:18,550 --> 00:11:21,600 is really to make sure we get a good understanding of, 249 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,440 when we're doing integration by parts, which function makes 250 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,200 the most sense to have as u, and which function makes the most 251 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:28,280 sense to have as v prime. 252 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,470 So that was the main point of this exercise. 253 00:11:30,470 --> 00:11:33,110 Hopefully you're starting to get a flavor for how 254 00:11:33,110 --> 00:11:35,340 these problems actually work. 255 00:11:35,340 --> 00:11:37,331 And I think I will stop there.